Milken Archive/Naxos: American Classics
Bruce Adolphe:
2004 Grammy for Best Producer!
Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering
Mikhoels the Wise (excerpt)
Out of the Whilrwind (oratorio based on Holocaust texts and melodies)
available at amazon.com
Turning, Returning
String quartets 1 and 2; In Memories of...; And All Is Always Now
CRI, The Brentano String Quartet and pianist Marija Stroke
available at amazon.com
Five American Clarinet Quintets -- David Shifrin, clarinet
DELOS; music by Bruce Adolphe; Ellen Taaffe Zwillich; Bright Sheng; Joan Tower; John Corigliano
available at amazon.com
Dorian Wind Quintet: American Premieres
Music by Adolphe, Tower, Schifrin, De Jong, Hoiby
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Marita and Her Heart's Desire (A Musical Fairy Tale)
Telarc
with Itzhak Perlman and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
available from amazon.com
Tyrannosaurus Sue:
A Cretaceous Concerto
performed by The Chicago Chamber Musicians
A powerful portrayal of the life and times of a Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue told in seven dramatic scenes.
available from PollyRhythm Productions
The Musical Rexicon
Book
A fun and entertaining activity book that explores music and science and includes engaging, whimsical and informative puzzles, games and drawings.
available from PollyRhythm Productions
Red Dogs and Pink Skies:
Paul Gauguin on Painting and Music
Book w/CD inside
An engaging testament to Gauguin in music, images and text, replete with quotes from Gauguin's writings, and enhanced by a timeline highlighting events in the artist's life in the context of music, science, literature, politics, and daily life.
available from PollyRhythm Productions
A Musical Celebration of Paul Gauguin
CD
Inspired by Gauguin's paintings and his Tahitian journal Noa Noa, Bruce Adolphe's musical hommage colorfully evokes the painter's world.
available from PollyRhythm Productions
Tough Turkey in the Big City:
A Feathered Tale
What happens when a turkey from the sticks meets a Park Avenue Pigeon? With the feel of an old-time radio story, Tough Turkey in the Big City follows the comic blunders of Tom Turkey, who leaves the farm to try his luck in the big city.
available from PollyRhythm Productions
Oceanophony
Plunge into an ocean of music and poetry to meet the sarcastic fringehead fish, puffer fish, stoplight parrotfish, a love-struck seahorse, an octopus, cleaning fish, and more! Swim through marine snow and discover the mysterious world of coral music. It's all part of OCEANOPHONY!
available from PollyRhythm Productions
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"The depth of his perceptions on music as a universal and integral part of our world are as riveting as his compositions and the lectures for which he is so well known."
CityBeat, Harrisburg, PA., 1997
"Written with grace, intelligence, and authority, never patronizing or arcane, generously leavened by wit and humor, Of Mozart, Parrots, and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind may well speak to a postmodern hunger. This is a book that will shake music-lovers awake from the stupefied torpors of overfamiliar thinking patterns, and will likely tweak the perceptions of experienced professional musicians no less. Highly recommended."
Fanfare, 2000
Current Books in Print:
The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Listeners, and Composers
published by and available from PollyRhythm Productions or amazon.com
What to Listen for in the World (reflections on music in our lives)
published by Limelight Editions/Amadeus Press
available from their website or from amazon.com
Of Mozart, Parrots, and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind
published by Limelight Editions/Amadeus Press
available from their website or amazon.com
Piano Puzzlers
On public radio stations throughout the country, Bruce Adolphe, creative director of PollyRhythm Productions, plays popular melodies disguised as pieces by great Classical composers and contestants call in to guess the tune and the composer whose style Bruce is imitating. For the first time, 30 of Bruce's Piano Puzzlers are available as sheet music!
available from PollyRhythm Productions or amazon.com
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